Compare and contrast the Roman Roads, Silk Road, and Royal Roads. Make sure explain where each were located, if they were connected to each other, their purposes, and how they aided the growth of their empires.

How did the development of the saddle contribute positively to the growth of trans-Saharan trade?

To whom did the term pagan originally refer?

What term describes a crop that has been modified by selective breeding?

Compare and contrast the Roman Roads, Silk Road, and Royal Roads. Make sure explain where each were located, if they were connected to each other, their purposes, and how they aided the growth of their empires.

Khubilai discouraged the Mongols in China from doing what?

Many positions in the Mongol Empire’s administration went to which ethnic group?

Why were dhimmis, or protected people, allowed some religious freedom?

The natural herding instinct of what animal paved the way for pastoralism?

In most Neolithic communities, which group of people were the first to work out written codes of law?